Crime Blog

A white supremacist pleaded guilty Thursday in Dallas to a prison attack on a Jewish inmate at Seagoville federal prison.

Timothy Lee York, 35, an Aryan Brotherhood member, admitted that on Dec. 28, 2007, he beat and strangled Stuart Rosoff to the point of unconsciousness because he is Jewish.

York is already serving 41 years after a federal jury convicted him in 2008 of using a Molotov cocktail in 2006 to start a fire at the Cooke County Courthouse in Gainesville, about 70 miles north of Dallas.

From 2002 through 2006, Rosoff’s group altered their caller ID information to call in fake emergencies to police. Group members pretended to be inside their victims’ homes, claiming to be holding hostages and threatening to kill them. Some people were injured as police stormed the homes.

Click below to see one of York’s court filings in which he tries to explain why he attacked Rosoff — he was a government “snitch” — and Rosoff’s version of the attack in a separate federal complaint. I’ve also uploaded an appeals court summary of York’s previous crimes, including the attempted courthouse arson in Gainesville.York Habeas Petition